Early Career Firmware Engineer (2026)

• Anduril is seeking an Early Career Firmware Engineer (2026) to join our team based in Costa Mesa, CA

• The Firmware team at Anduril develops core technology used across multiple products such as as Menace, Dive-XL, Ghost, and Roadrunner

• We work in close coordination with Electrical Engineering to develop hardware and software solutions to some of the hardest problems facing our customers

• You’ll contribute low level firmware development for systems operating on land, sea, and air

• Develop low-level firmware/software for microcontrollers

• Create reusable device drivers and integrate system-level features

• Architect changes to support an ever-growing codebase

• Quickly debug and troubleshoot issues that span the electrical, firmware, and software boundaries

• Collaborate and review schematics with the electrical engineering team

Benefits

• Full Family Health Coverage

• 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers

• Family Planning & Support

• Incentivized Time Off

• Mental Health Resources

• Financial Planning

• Unlimited Provisions

• Professional Development- Familiarity with microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors

• Knowledge developing firmware in bare-metal or RTOS environments

• 3 months - 2 years of technical work to include technical internship and able to start full time in 2026

• Understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring up and debugging

• Some familiarity with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc

• Must be pursuing or have completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field

• U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

• Experience coding in C for embedded systems

• Experience with one or more microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.)

• Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analyzers

• Have a bias for action. If you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it

• Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use

• Low-ego, high ownership, and mission oriented